Video of treasurer candidates

These two videos, as short as they are (the maximum my camera will shoot is just under three minutes), are fairly representative of what it's like talking to these two candidates.

First we have challenger Thomas Ravenel, the Republican, airing his business acumen in his own breezy way during his editorial board endorsement interview on Aug. 28. His point in this discourse to tell us what he knows about investments that, by implication, the incumbent does not.

Then, we have incumbent Treasurer Grady Patterson, talking about his young opponent and explaining -- sort of -- why he won't go on live TV to debate him. This is from the Democrat's interview on Oct. 5. By the way, one of the questioners is reporter John O'Connor, who is not a member of the editorial board. We invite folks from the newsroom to attend our meetings, and sometimes they take us up on it. Every once in a while, the meetings actually produce news.